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  1. 3900 years of land subsidence at Lipari Island (Italy): new insights for Early Bronze Age submerged findings [html, pdf 17pp] #UnderwaterArchaeology #MaritimeArchaeology #BronzeAge doi.org/10.1016/j.quaint.2026.

  2. DNA traces on medieval parchment reveal 3,700-year history of deadly sheeppox virus

    Medieval manuscripts preserve genetic traces of a sheep disease that has threatened herds across Eurasia for more than 3,700 years, according to a new study. Researchers recovered ancient DNA from sheeppox virus, or SPPV, in animal skins used to make parchment...

    More information: archaeologymag.com/2026/09/med

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    #archaeology #archeology #archaeologynews #anthropology #sheeppox #bronzeage #medieval

  3. A woman buried in Bronze Age Poland has teeth that say wheat and bones that say millet, decades apart. New isotope work pushes Europe’s earliest millet consumption back over a century. #Archaeology #BronzeAge #Bioarchaeology anthropology.net/p/millet-reac

  4. Britain’s Tallest Standing Stones Traced to Their Geological Source

    Scientists from Curtin University and the University of York have pinpointed the origin of the Devil’s Arrows, the…
    #EuropeSays #Britain #Europe #EU #UK #Apatite #BrimhamRocks #BronzeAge #Devil’sArrows #Megalithicstructure #Neolithic #PlumptonRocks #UnitedKingdom #Yorkshire #Zircon
    europesays.com/britain/120979/

  5. Bronze Age bowl barrow on Upper Hollesley Common, Suffolk. These are the most numerous type of round barrow and up to 10,000 recorded nationally and no doubt many more lost. This area is rich in archaeological remains, with the famous Sutton Hoo nearby and several other bowl barrows. Not to mention the UFO’s in Rendlesham Forest. #history #bronzeage #archeology

  6. Bronze Age bowl barrow on Upper Hollesley Common, Suffolk. These are the most numerous type of round barrow and up to 10,000 recorded nationally and no doubt many more lost. This area is rich in archaeological remains, with the famous Sutton Hoo nearby and several other bowl barrows. Not to mention the UFO’s in Rendlesham Forest. #history #bronzeage #archeology

  7. Bronze Age bowl barrow on Upper Hollesley Common, Suffolk. These are the most numerous type of round barrow and up to 10,000 recorded nationally and no doubt many more lost. This area is rich in archaeological remains, with the famous Sutton Hoo nearby and several other bowl barrows. Not to mention the UFO’s in Rendlesham Forest. #history #bronzeage #archeology

  8. Bronze Age bowl barrow on Upper Hollesley Common, Suffolk. These are the most numerous type of round barrow and up to 10,000 recorded nationally and no doubt many more lost. This area is rich in archaeological remains, with the famous Sutton Hoo nearby and several other bowl barrows. Not to mention the UFO’s in Rendlesham Forest. #history #bronzeage #archeology

  9. Bronze Age bowl barrow on Upper Hollesley Common, Suffolk. These are the most numerous type of round barrow and up to 10,000 recorded nationally and no doubt many more lost. This area is rich in archaeological remains, with the famous Sutton Hoo nearby and several other bowl barrows. Not to mention the UFO’s in Rendlesham Forest. #history #bronzeage #archeology

  10. As Britain enters its fifth heatwave this year, here is an illustration called 'Bronze Age Sun Worship' by Adolf Lehmann, 1920.
    #BronzeAge #prehistory #ritual #pagan #heatwave

  11. #FindsFriday! In 2021, we carried out an exciting excavation in Großmugl, where we documented settlement remains from the #BronzeAge and #IronAge. The #EarlyBronzeAge #pottery included several highlights: vessels decorated with rows of impressions, incised lines, and punctuated dots, some filled with white inlay, like the fragments shown here! #Archaeology #Ceramics #ArchaeologicalFinds #Excavation #EuropeanPrehistory #MaterialCulture #Austria #History #Österreich

  12. Scientists Have Uncovered Evidence Of #Ireland's Largest #Prehistoric #Hillfort Settlement
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    phys.org/news/2025-12-scientis
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    “In a recent study [(link above), the authors] identified more than 600 suspected house platforms in the Brusselstown Ring hillfort [Ireland], making it the largest nucleated settlement ever discovered in the entirety of prehistoric Britain and Ireland thus far. Subsequent test excavations revealed evidence of Late Bronze Age and Early Iron Age occupation as well as a potential water cistern, which may be the very first of its kind in an Irish hillfort…”
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    #GIS #spatial #mapping #remotesensing #LiDAR #survey ##bronzeage #prehistoric #irishhistory #irishmythology #wicklow #irelandsancienteast #heritageireland #mountains #monument #microtopographical #houseplatforms #culture #settlement #village #EarlyIronAge #BrusselstownRing #bronzeage #Neolithic #testpit #sampling #archaeology #excavation #cistern #monuments #Wicklow #investigation #reconstruction #irish #history
    @MonumentalIreland